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Fascist in the Family - The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P. (Paperback)
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Fascist in the Family - The Tragedy of John Beckett M.P. (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
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John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's
youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for
greatness. But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley's
fascists, and one of Britain's three best known anti-Semites. Yet
his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons,
Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia. He successfully hid
his Jewish ancestry all his life - he said his mother's family were
"fisher folk from the east coast." His son, the author of this
book, acclaimed political biographer and journalist Francis
Beckett, did not discover the truth until John Beckett had been
dead for years. He left Mosley and founded the National Socialist
League with William Joyce, later Lord Haw Haw, and spent the war
years in prison, considered a danger to the war effort. For the
rest of his life, and all of Francis Beckett's childhood, John
Beckett and his family were closely watched by the security
services. Their devious machinations, traced in records only
recently released, damaged chiefly his young family. This is a
fascinating and brutally honest account of a troubled man in
turbulent times.
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